The Grapes of Wrath revisited: Dust to dust for the ghosts of Route 66
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '&')quot;My father had two gas stations here," said Roxann Travis, the last resident of Glenrio straddling the Texas-New Mexico border. "Traffic would be lined up both directions. He'd have all five of us kids out there washing windshields and changing the oil so all they had to do was pump gas and keep moving them through as fast as we could.
"We used to keep horses across the road but it was hard to get to them there were so many cars. When my kids were being raised here, they played ball on the road. You could take a nap on it now."
Yet the deepest US recession since the great depression has brought flickers of new life to the old route as hard up Americans forsake flying to vacations in the sun in favour of discovering the romance of the old road made famous in novel and song.
